Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-03-04
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

TERRITORIAL ITEMS.
Peter Marcwich, of Port Townsend,
has been taken to the Asylum for the
Insane at Steilacoom.
1t is estimated that Lincoln County
has 5000 sheep, and at ID cents a
pound the wood clip will bring $75 900.
Walla Walla Union: 1t is sad to
write it, but the apricots and peaches
are killed. At least this is the verdict
of those who have examined their or
chards as far as We know.
A child of Mrs. b. G. ROwley, of
South Prairie, Pierce county, % months
old, fell into tub of hot water, last
Monday, and sustained injuries from
which it died in few hours.
Edward Bently, sentenced to the
Territorial Penitentiary from Seattle,
for burglary, removed his irons while
on the cars en- route to prison, jumped
from the moving train and escaped.
Delegate Voorhees, has written let
ter to Mayor Shoudy Of Seattle, in
forming that official that Commissioner
of the Land Office Sparks is opposed
to removing the Land Office from
Olympia to Seattle.
Kitsap Pioneer: Browns boom went
in to the Port Madison mill last
Wednesday. They had 100000 feet
and got $3.50 per thousand. The
prices of logs are steadily raising and
it is reported that Mr.. Meiggs is pay
ing 81 for average logs.
A stock company has been organized
in New York with capital stock of
$3.50 600, for the purpose of putting in
smelling and reduction works at Col
vile, in the Spring. Fifty thousand
dollars have been subscribed and the
certainty of the work is assured.
Walla Walla Journal: w. S. Wig
gin, of Seattle, Superintendent of the
Kittitas milling, mining and smelling
company, is bound for Covington, KY,
to superintend the shipment to Ellens-
burg of a smelter of so tons per diem
capacity, and a small sawmill, which
the company will have built at a cost
of $4,000.
Vice-President Gilman of the Seat
tie, Lake Shore and Eastern, has just
received instructions from the East to
prosecute work as fast as possible on
the first forty miles to the Squak coal
mines, which they recently bought.
The contract for two five-mile sections
has been let already and the contract
ors are hiring men.
A Congregational Church of six
teen members was organized by Rev.
C. C. Otis at Coupeville, WILDLY Isl
and, on Sunday, the Goth. Prof.
George Lindsay, the principal of the
Puget Sound Academy, is for the pres
ent to act as pastor OF this new church
in connection with his work as teach
er. Both the academy and the church
are starting off most favorably, much
to the delight of the people ON the
Island.
The Whatcom Rereille, in an ode to
the chronic kicker, has the following ::
p" Beneath this stone there rests man,
who'll keep on kicking if he can; he
kicked while he remained on earth,
commencing at the hour of birth he
kicked SO hard, he kicked so high, his
heels would sometimes scrape the sky.
And when he reaches Heavens gates,
he'll kick because no street car waits /;
and when a silver harp he'll hold, he'll
kick because it isn't gold"
Whatcom Repeille: 1t is understood
that J. F. Hart has interested with
him some heavy Eastern capitalists
who will turn the trainway now run
ming between Harris sawmill and this
city into broad-gauge railway; that
they will extend the same about ten
miles into the country through splen-
did belt of timber to some coal fields
that are said to exist south of here.
The road will reach deep water here off
from where Burns and others have
done their piling on the tide flats.
The Kititas Localizer states that the
Northern Pacific Railroad will be COM
pleted across the mountains by the LIST
of May next. This opinion is given
after interviews with various members
of the construction department. The
same paper adds Now let the proposed
Fourth of July celebration on the sum-
nit assume gigantic proportions and
be successfully carried out. Let East
ern and Western Washington have
an old-fashioned Misunderstanding while
standing on tho barrier that has here
tofore divided this vast commonwealth
into two distinct countries.
The cost of the new Penitentiary at
Walla Walla has equalled the appro-
priation, but not exceeded it, says the
Union. For furnishing material and
building the stockade and doing u
small amount of extra work, there was
paid Knott & Perry $24,42O33; for
furnishing material and erecting all
the buildings there was paid HendeI-
son & Jones 1924, 1885; for the cells
and gateway there was paid the Pauly
Jail Manufacturing Company $25, PIG
IS; for plumbing, engineering, archi-
tect, superintendent, commissioners
salaries, ETC., there was paid 81 1895. 81 /;
total expenditure SIS, 1880.
Do not forget that for fair and square
daa ling Snuirea takaa the nalm.